DRIED TOMATOES
This easy method will show you exactly how to dehydrate cherry tomatoes using a dehydrator or oven. Use dried cherry tomatoes in pasta salads, sandwiches, or even eat them as a snack! It’s the perfect way to use up an abundance of juicy, summer tomatoes.
INGREDIENTS
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Tomatoes (cherries work best)
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Salt
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Optional: Herbs
HOW TO DRY
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Wash tomatoes, and remove stems. If you’re drying large tomatoes, remove the cores, too.
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Slice the tomatoes to your desired size. Smaller pieces dry faster, so cut large tomatoes into slices or strips. Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
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Arrange the tomatoes on your dehydrator trays. Leave space around each tomato, so they dry faster.
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Sprinkle the tomatoes with salt. Add herbs, if you’d like.
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Dry until they feel really leathery and dry to the touch. I dry at 55°
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Store in an air-tight container. Shake the container every day for the first week, so the remaining moisture is evenly distributed throughout the tomatoes. This is an important step that will prevent them from molding. They will about 6 months.
It takes a bit more work, but you can dehydrate tomatoes in the oven at its lowest temperature. Make sure to press out as much juice as possible beforehand and flip the tomatoes regularly until the desired consistency is reached.
You can make a tomatoe powder. This is done by adding the dried tomatoes to a herb or coffee grinder until it makes a fine powder. The powder can be added to soups, pasta etc.
The dried tomatoes can be stored in olive oil/vinegar mix in the fridge and we will bring you this recipe shortly as we are playing around with the vinegar/oil mix.
View some of our recipes on how to incorporate these into your diet.